WSJ's Deborah Ball Traveling With Pope Francis

Pope Francis' trip to South Korea marks the first papal visit to Asia since 1999. The WSJ's Deborah Ball is traveling with the Pope and gives us this update.

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... and ... this touches down it's all beginning the first of the five day visit to South Korea ... I'd ever con joining me now is a Wall Street Journal reporter Deborah Ball who is traveling with the Holy see ... so right you on the Plano with Pope Francis act housing Leckie said in anticipation of this first visit to Asia ... Brady mean he he does he get it well our clients the overnight flight leaving for Rome to Seoul ... he and he did it becomes that of the meats and journalists agree this one by one day he made some comments generally more actually but situation released today tonight and he and I talk more about this job today ... that certainly has come and sleep as he gave his the Korean people to pray for him it was the success of this trip ... he arrived in Seoul and he met B ... and the president that the airport to welcome them ... and this afternoon will be going to see the tree and every authorities on the stock to me be the bishops of Korea ... spending that ... kind enough five days at me E-mail South Korea is not going anywhere else and age that ... I'll why why is that ... well this is the first the trip to Asia by this time he identified it as a rarity almost immediately after he was elected in just a couple into the city was going to get a sense ... of hope has not been to East Asia since mid nineties I John Paul the second ... dictated India in ninety nine ... I'm so this ... is coming to Korea because mostly because the Asia and used a bamboo plant there I was the weekend ... and did the application of about a hundred and twenty four St Margaret's but mostly its high lighting ... did you get credit in the dynamism of the Korean church which is why the boxes and small that aspirin church is the world's ... ok and as you mentioned as growing numbers but how important is its overall to the back ... it is critical announcement about the game is the only three percent of Asians are Catholics is by far the smallest ... percentage to ... the capture Cassidy the region's ... its it'd be the untapped potential over the church to engage in potentially ... it could rebalance the fall in membership the church highs in the region to be in the US in your ... and so the Asia is as John Paul the second set many years ago ... he said is the region of the third Millenium for the Catholic Church ... its last Federal reporter Deborah Ball with that for ten more updates during Pope Francis is a threat to South Korea ...